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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is Frank Capra's classic screwball comedy about a village innocent who inherits $20 million, only to discover it's more trouble than it's worth. The screwball in question is Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), a small-town greeting-card poet and tuba player transplanted to the big city to administer his newly inherited wealth, where fast-pattering, wised-up cynics, sneering society denizens, and corrupt lawyers lord it over the ingenuous and straightforward. Deeds's idiosyncrasies are amply magnified in the tabloids by journalist "Babe" Bennett (Jean Arthur), dating Deeds as a cover, only to discover she's the...
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A great Capra film about a man, Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), who inherits millions of dollars and must deal with the big city sharks who want to take it away. Eventually Deeds realizes that the world is a much more cruel place than he could have ever imagined. Like all Capra dreamers, Deeds is reinvigorated in the...
(complete Mr. Deeds Goes to Town review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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